Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1887-10-16

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reayement should be chosen for this act OF
grace and kindness!
This torture endured for q fortnight
Then the end came, in q way which we Ut
tie expected and had not guarded against
1t was in the forenoon, about 1l:5O, De-
fore John Huntspill had left madam, ana
before the arrival of my singing master,
who was due at II. was alone IN my
own room. free for a moment from tutors,
0nyerpess. and my lady-free to think OF
the mast, nv only solace. My own maid
she was the only one In the house VINO
knew that had some secret sorrow-came
10 tell me that there was a sailor, an old
sailor In the hall who wished to see me.
Who could il be but Dan Gulliver?
It was indeed old Dan himself. He came
up stairs in his slow and quiet way. |
saw him before he saw me. He was dressed
like common sailor; his hair was grayer
and his dear old face grayer; there was no
other change.
He stood in the doorway. He actually
did not recognize me.
Dan! cried, springing into his arms.
Dan! Don't you you know me?"
Then he did, and laid his hands upon
nv shoulders, holding me back and look
ing at me, before he kissed my cheek.
"My pretty" he said, land growed so
tall! And such lady! To be sure, she
always was as sweet hammered as any lady
in the land. And oh, my pretty! he's
gone! Don't take on! don't take on"
TEL me all about it, Dan. Tell me.
And poor Jephthah gone too!"
Cut IN two halves, he was, with
chain shot. Died in action, my boy
Jephthah. But Mr.. Campion, poor young
gentleman, he died by drownding. Fell
off the yard in the night, and never was
seen-how could he be seen?-afterwards.
Poor young gentleman
''Oh, Dan-Dan-my heart will break!'
"Cry, pretty-cry as much as ever you
can. But cryin' won't bring him back
Cry now, while tell you all about him.
''They knOwed our story aboard the VIC
tory. was Smuggler Dan. The boys
were Smuggler Job and Tother Job-be-
cause, Pm sorry to say, they mariners
aboard his majesty's ships never knew
which was which. And so Jephthah, who
is now cut in two pieces, was never knowed
as such. And Mr.. Campion they called
Gentlemen Jack Now remember-some
young gentlemen after getting a three
years billet in the fo'ksle for smuggling
would ha' sat down and grizzled. Mr..
Campion wasn't one o. that sort Pro
yidin' always he says to me-'providin'
ALWAYS. Dan, as my mother never finds
ont, WHY, what odds is three years cruise?
And merry with it. Once he ketches hold
of n fiddle. the fo'ksle's alive; when
he began to play you'd ha'
thought the fiddle was talkin,
not him a playin'. All round him the
men would be sittin' an singin' till the
whole ship was as good tempered as if
there wasn't nary bOs'n nor petty officer
aboard.
"Well, you may depend on it, pretty,
that it wasn't long before the officers got
to know what an uncommon sailor they'd
got shipped aboard the Victory, for little
run as he'd made across the Channel one
fine night; and it wasn't long before Capt.
Hardy himself, inding Mr.. Campion on
the quarter deck, axed him-ay, before
the administrative he was and how he
came aboard. Mr.. Campion, no more
afraid of speaking to the captain than to
the carpenter, he told him, touching his
hat, that he had been caught smuggling;
that they'd all got of with three years for
the information they gave to the Ad-
miralty, and that he hoped to give salts
faction to his honor so long as he was
aboard, after which time, he said, he
should give up sailoring before the mast.
Capt. Hardy he laughed and the admiral
laughed, aud then his lOrdship, who
ought to know, said, in his quiet, easy
way, that man was no worse sailor for
being a gentleman born, but that gentle
man ought not to run cargOes across the
Channel. After that l think the word
WAS passed down to make some sort OF
difference with us. Anyway, the worst OF
the bos'ns never laid ropes end on none OF
us four.
Come the action of Trafalgar. My
pretty, we done our duty-JOb and Jeph-
than and Mr.. CampiOn and me-till that
chain shot came, and all i saw % my boy
Jephthah was two halves aud pool OF
blood.
"When the admiral fell they told me to
carry him down. That took best part OF
a quarter OF an hour. The action lasted
half an hour longer. When the firing
ceased and one could look round, l saw
MIR. Campion alongside of job, alive and
hearty. As for Jephthah, that poor boy
was thrOwed overheard in two halves.
I'VE had nasty weather on the way
home. One Of the prizes fOundered. And
one dark night, in that nasty weather, all
in the dark, poor Mr.. CampiOn fell over
board and was drowned"
{ listened to the story, my head in my
hands. When Dan finished l burst out
into fresh sObbing and crying. / forgot
about Lady Campion and everything, /
never looked up. While Dan told his
story lay hiding my face in the sofa aud
CRYING, while the door stood wide open,
aud madam herself stood there listening
to every word, and with her John Hunts
pill, with white cheeks and troubled brow
| looked up in my grief, but spraug to my
feet, terrified by the look Of madam. She
was drawn to her full height, leaning on
her stick; her face was perfectly white: her
lips trembled; her sightless eyes seemed to
pour lightning on poor Dan; she was terri
bic in her despair and wrath.
Tell me-" she said-''not you, girl,
not you-tell me, man, smuggler, sailor,
whatever you are, who was this Mr.. Cam
pion who fell overheard and was drowned?"
HE was your ladyship's son, and my
Pleasanee's sweetheart" said Dan simply.
"And he was smuggler, too, was hep
mo, madame, not smuggler; only
once, for boyish freak, he must needs run
across with me for single venture. And
when we were all tried, my lady, at Dor
chester Sizes, we got off for three years
abroad, 'acause of the news we picked up
on our way back"
"Triedlrmy son was triedl-with COM
mon sailors! He was tried and got Off
he was sent to seal'
And he is dead" said John Huntspill,
in solemn sadness.
HE is deadw echoed his mother. "And
you, girl, knew he was at sea, a common
sailoI?"
ALAS - I moaned, 81 knew only too
we'll"
That you concealed from me. Did you
know on Illumination Day that my son was
dead?"
~ knew that then," replied.
She was silent for space Her eyes